Marc Vander Maas

Posts by Marc Vander Maas

Via The New Editor, a restatement of a basic economic rule that we all need to remember as government in America swings back to the left. Clive Crook, in the course of reviewing Robin Williams’ Man of the Year, notes the potential unintended consequences if an anti-business mood overtakes our representatives:
Case by case, the merit in these proposals varies from substantial (executive pay) to less than none (taxing profits), but put the merits of the individual policies aside. Continue Reading...

Behold the rise of the perfect coalition: the climate change brigades and the Roswell True Believers!
A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday. Continue Reading...

Bjorn Lomborg has a better Powerpoint presentation than Al Gore. He’s also a more captivating speaker, and uses decent logic in his presentations. Is there any way we can get him an Oscar for the following 17 minute tour-de-force? Continue Reading...

Mr. Fred L. Smith, Jr. at the 2007 Acton Lecture Series
Mr. Fred L. Smith, Jr. of the Competitive Enterprise Institute was today’s guest speaker as part of the 2007 Acton Lecture Series here in Grand Rapids, speaking on the topic of The Irresponsibility of Corporate Social Responsibility. Continue Reading...

Well, it’s happened. Ellen Goodman, writing last week in the Boston Globe, effectively ended the debate over climate change by invoking the most dreaded comparison of all:
I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Continue Reading...

So yeah, I’m a global warming skeptic. Why? Well, this sort of thing:
Maybe for the same reason we believed, 30 years ago, that global cooling was the biggest threat: a matter of faith. Continue Reading...

“We noticed that they took the umbrellas and the pens, but threw away the policy leaflets before they walked out of the door.”
You don’t say?
It’s the weekend; I can get away with a post like this on the weekend. Continue Reading...

There’s nothing like a few dreary Michigan winter days to get me into a midwinter funk. And because I’m a nice guy, I thought I’d share some of my funkyness with you, gentle reader. Continue Reading...

Every now and again, I stumble across an article that just gets me going. Today was one such day, and this was one such article. Robert Samuelson takes aim at the baby boomers and their entitlement mentality in the Washington Post:
As someone born in late 1945, I say this to the 76 million or so subsequent baby boomers and particularly to Bill Clinton and George W. Continue Reading...

Dr. Michel Casey – Clicking this link will open a new window with a video player.
Dr. Michael Casey was in Grand Rapids today to deliver the first address of the 2007 Acton Lecture Series, which was entitled The Religion of Politics. Continue Reading...